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Franz Waxman
p, 1906-1967 DE, Chorzów
Composer of Soundtrack and Classical
A.k.a. Franz Waxman former: Franz Wachsmann José d'Alba
Franz Waxman (/ˈwæksmən/; 24 December 1906 – 24 February 1967) - born Franz Wachsmann - was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include The Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun). He also received a Golden Globe Award for the former film. Bernard Herrmann said that the score for Taras Bulba was the most wonderful thing.
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Popular Tracks 
Dance and Angela on Sharp Objects by Various Artists Main Title / The Bride of Frankenstein on Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman Auld Lang Syne on Sunset Boulevard - Music from the Motion Picture by Franz Waxman Main Title (Film Version With Effects) on Sunset Boulevard - Music from the Motion Picture by Franz Waxman Lisa Theme - From Rear Window (1954) on Best GRACE KELLY Movie Themes by Various Artists Rear Window Main Title - Original Soundtrack Theme from "Rear Window" on Rear Window Main Title by Franz Waxman Prelude on Sunset Boulevard - Music from the Motion Picture by Franz Waxman Juke Box Number 6 (Rear Window) on Music From The Films of Alfred Hitchcok Vol. 1 by Various Artists Main Title - the Bride of Frankenstein on The Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman The Monster's Entrance on Bride of Frankenstein by Franz WaxmanTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Band Members
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captains Courageous: The Franz Waxman Collection | Franz Waxman | 2017 | Album |
| Peyton Place/Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man | Franz Waxman | 2017 | Album |
| Vintage Hollywood Classics XVII: Sunset Boulevard (1950) & She (1935) - The Original Symphonic Soundtracks | Franz Waxman And Max Steiner | 2015 | Album |
| Double Indemnity (Film Noir At Paramount) | Miklós Rózsa, Hugo Friedhofer, Franz Waxman, Gail Kubik, Leith Stevens, Heinz Eric Roemheld, Victor Young | 2015 | Album |
| The Nash Ensemble Plays American Chamber Music | Bernard Herrmann / George Gershwin / Franz Waxman / Aaron Copland, The Nash Ensemble | 2015 | Album |
| Crime In The Streets / Dino | Franz Waxman / Gerald Fried | 2014 | Compil. |
| Elephant Walk/Botany Bay/Stalag17 | Franz Waxman | 2013 | Album |
| The Bride Of Frankenstein | Franz Waxman | 2013 | Single |
| A Place In The Sun | Franz Waxman | 2013 | Album |
| American Serenade | Rachel Kolly D'Alba – Leonard Bernstein, Franz Waxman, George Gershwin, Orchestre National Des Pays De La Loire, John Axelrod | 2012 | Album |
| Career | Franz Waxman | 2012 | Album |
| Taras Bulba | Franz Waxman | 2011 | Album |
| Sunset Blvd.(Sunset Boulevard) (Music From The Motion Picture) | Franz Waxman | 2010 | Album |
| Lure Of The Wilderness | Franz Waxman | 2009 | Album |
| Crime In The Streets | Franz Waxman | 2009 | Album |
| Peyton Place / Sayonara | Franz Waxman | 2009 | Compil. |
| My Cousin Rachel | Franz Waxman | 2008 | Album |
| Anne Of The Indies / The Man On Tightrope | Franz Waxman | 2007 | Album |
| The Silver Chalice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Franz Waxman | 2007 | Album |
| The Silver Chalice | Franz Waxman | 2007 | Album |
| Joshua | Franz Waxman | 2006 | Album |
| Return To Peyton Place | Franz Waxman | 2006 | Album |
| Rebecca | Franz Waxman, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adriano | 2005 | Album |
| Classic Film Scores By Franz Waxman - Objective Burma / Rebecca | Franz Waxman | 2005 | Album |
| Music From CBS Westerns (Selections From Original Television Scores) | Jerome Moross / Franz Waxman / Bernard Herrmann / Hugo Friedhofer | 2004 | Compil. |
| Cimarron | Franz Waxman | 2004 | Album |
| Beloved Infidel | Franz Waxman | 2003 | Album |
| Night And The City | Benjamin Frankel And Franz Waxman | 2003 | Album |
| Rebecca | Franz Waxman - Joel McNeely | 2002 | Album |
| The Virgin Queen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Franz Waxman | 2002 | Album |
| Sunset Boulevard / Demetrius And The Gladiators | Franz Waxman | 2002 | Album |
| Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) | Franz Waxman | 2002 | Album |
| Demetrius And The Gladiators | Franz Waxman | 2002 | Album |
| Untamed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Franz Waxman | 2001 | Album |
| Music From The Alfred Hitchcock Movies -Rebecca/ The 39 Steps/ Sabotage (A Woman Alone)/ Young And Innocent (The Girl Was Young)/ The Lady Vanishes | Franz Waxman, Hubert Bath, Jack Beaver, Charles Williams, Louis Levy, Cecil Milner | 2001 | Compil. |
| Frankenstein / Bride Of Frankenstein | Franz Waxman | 2000 | Album |
| A History Of Horror From Nosferatu To The Sixth Sense | Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Carl Davis, James Bernard, Brian Easdale, Gerard Schurmann | 2000 | Album |
| Great Violinists • Heifetz | Henri Vieuxtemps, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pablo de Sarasate, Franz Waxman, Jascha Heifetz | 2000 | Compil. |
| Objective, Burma! | Franz Waxman / The Moscow Symphony Orchestra • William Stromberg | 2000 | Album |
| Mr. Skeffington | Franz Waxman | 1999 | Album |
| Prince Valiant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Franz Waxman | 1999 | Album |
| The Song Of Terezín · Requiem Ebraico | Franz Waxman · Eric Zeisl - Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin Und Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin, Lawrence Foster | 1998 | Album |
| Legends Of Hollywood: Franz Waxman, Volume Four | Franz Waxman | 1996 | Album |
| The Spirit Of St. Louis; Ruth | Franz Waxman / George Shirley, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Lawrence Foster | 1996 | Album |
| Bandoneon - Konzert Für Bandoneon | Astor Piazzolla, Johannes Goritzki, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Nino Rota, Franz Waxman, Bernhard Heiden | 1996 | Album |
| Sayonara - Orchestral Suites | Franz Waxman | 1995 | Compil. |
| Taras Bulba / Young Billy Young (Original Music From The Motion Picture) | Franz Waxman, Shelly Manne | 1995 | Compil. |
| The Story Of Ruth | Franz Waxman | 1995 | Album |
| Legends Of Hollywood: Franz Waxman, Volume Three | Franz Waxman | 1994 | Album |
| Concerto / Concerto / Tema Con Variazioni / "Carmen" Fantasy | Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Miklós Rózsa / Franz Waxman - Jascha Heifetz | 1994 | Compil. |
| The Bride Of Frankenstein | Franz Waxman | 1993 | Album |
| A History Of Hitchcock - Dial M For Murder | Paul Bateman, Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, Maurice Jarre, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Ron Goodwin, Richard Addinsell, Charles Gounod | 1993 | Album |
| Herrmann / Waxman / Rózsa | Bernard Herrmann / Franz Waxman / Miklós Rózsa / Berliner Symphoniker / Isaiah Jackson | 1992 | Album |
| Classical Hollywood III | Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Jerome Moross / Franz Waxman / Colin Towns featuring The Korngold Quartet, Scott Woolley, The Mildred Pierce Orchestra | 1992 | Album |
| Violin Concerto No. 1 / Carmen Fantasie / Havanaise / Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso | Niccolò Paganini / Franz Waxman / Camille Saint-Saëns - Maxim Vengerov, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta | 1992 | Album |
| The Film Music Of Franz Waxman | Franz Waxman | 1990 | Compil. |
| Legends Of Hollywood: Franz Waxman Vol. 2 | Franz Waxman | 1990 | Compil. |
| Legends Of Hollywood: Franz Waxman Vol. 1 | Franz Waxman | 1990 | Compil. |
| Mutiny On The Bounty & Taras Bulba | Franz Waxman | 1990 | Album |
| The Bride Of Frankenstein · Botany Bay · Taras Bulba · Mr. Roberts · The Horn Blows At Midnight · The Paradine Case | Franz Waxman / Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | 1986 | Compil. |
| Digital Premiere Recordings From The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock | John Williams / Dimitri Tiomkin / Franz Waxman / Roy Webb | 1985 | Album |
| Music For Epic Motion Pictures | Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Alex North | 1984 | Album |
| Lost Command | Franz Waxman | 1979 | Album |
| Kipling's Jungle Book | Miklós Rózsa, Victor Symphony Orchestra, Franz Waxman, Roy Webb | 1979 | Compil. |
| The Paradine Case And Spellbound | Franz Waxman | 1979 | Album |
| Концертная Симфония Для Скрипки С Оркестром, Соч. 43 / Фантазия На Темы Оперы „Кармен“ | Leonid Kogan - Револь Бунин / Georges Bizet - Franz Waxman | 1978 | Album |
| Great Americana Film Scores / The Kentuckian | Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, Hugo Friedhofer, Franz Waxman, Ken Darby | 1977 | Album |
| Main Title From "Peyton Place" | Franz Waxman | 1976 | Single |
| The Silver Chalice | Franz Waxman | 1975 | Album |
| Sunset Boulevard - The Classic Film Scores Of Franz Waxman | Franz Waxman / National Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Gerhardt | 1974 | Album |
| Bande Originale Du Film "Tarass-Boulba" | Franz Waxman | 1962 | Single |
| Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man (An Original Soundtrack Recording) | Franz Waxman | 1962 | Album |
| My Geisha - An Original Soundtrack Recording | Franz Waxman | 1962 | Album |
| Taras Bulba (Original Music From The Motion Picture) | Franz Waxman | 1962 | Album |
| The Nun's Story (Original Film Score) | Franz Waxman | 1959 | Album |
| Sayonara | Franz Waxman | 1958 | Single |
| Peyton Place (An Original Soundtrack Recording) | Franz Waxman | 1958 | Album |
| Peyton Place (An Original Soundtrack Recording) | Franz Waxman | 1958 | Album |
| Sayonara, An Original Soundtrack Recording | Franz Waxman | 1957 | Single |
| Sayonara | Franz Waxman, Miiko Taka | 1957 | Single |
| The Spirit Of St. Louis | Franz Waxman | 1957 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No.2 / Sinfonietta For Strings And Timpani | Lukas Foss, Franz Waxman, Los Angeles Festival Symphony Orchestra | 1957 | Album |
| Crime In The Streets | Franz Waxman | 1956 | Album |
| Violin Selections From "Humoresque" | Isaac Stern, Franz Waxman | 1950 | Album |
| Humoresque | Isaac Stern, Oscar Levant | 1946 | Album |
| Adagio Aus Dem Violinkonzert Nr. 1 / Zigeunerweisen | Isaac Stern, Max Bruch, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Pablo de Sarasate | Single | |
| Carmen Fantasie | Jascha Heifetz, Franz Waxman | Album | |
| Joseph Schuster Franz Waxman | Joseph Schuster & Franz Waxman & The Los Angeles Orchestral Society | Album | |
| Love Duets From Romeo And Juliet | Franz Waxman | Album | |
| Valse-Scherzo Op. 34 / Serenade Melancolique / Introduktion Und Rondo Capriccioso / Legende Op. 17 / Carmen-Fantasie | Leonid Kogan / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Henryk Wieniawski, Georges Bizet / Franz Waxman | Album |
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